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Celebrate Chanukah?

their plans of dictatorship by political adventurers and
fanatics.
During the 44 years that he was head of the labor
movement in America a definite line of action could
always be discerned. Never would he agree to surren-
der the right of labor to settle its own disputes and dif-
ficulties. At no time did he depart from the position
that in economic matters the economic man, the worker,
should fight on and settle controverted matters. lie
believed that labor had the capacity. the resourceful-
ness, the energy and the intelligence to take care of
its own affairs without the assistance or interference
of all political agencies. In the long upward struggle
of American labor he has been by turn aggressive
and uncompromising or conciliating and conservative

By ABRAHAM CAPLAN

story of Purim included in the
Should we celebrate Chanukah?
canon and the Book of the Maccabe e s
What a peculiar and unnecessary
denied a place in the world's great, -t
question,
you
will
say,
and
you
will
listened as Second-ellis:b.
spiritual thesaurus? For, if anythii
proceed to place your menorah,
IIE giving of gifts seems to be
the story of the Maccabees etmtdi,,.
bright after earnest burnishing, on
T regulated by calendar and cos-
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more that is inspiriting to
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thinking and action than that ,t
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determined the Bible canon no ilidild
not answered the question. Shou li
generality of people think of them-
is
explained on the ground of th, ir
first
At
$3.00 Per Year
we celebrate Chanukah?
selves first and of others only after-
superior judgment and insight. Wiiiie
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blush the query seems heterodox,
wards. That gifts are sent with the
the
theme which underlies the idory
as
publication. all correspondence and news matter must reach this
coming as it does from one who,
To insure
thought that those who receive them
ollice by Tuesday evening of nob week.
of Purim and that of Chanukah ii i,
far as you know, looks upon the phi , -
— —
should be mindful of their obligations
t
that
the will to destroy the Jew from
eorreepondenc
e on subjects of Interes
nomenon called Jewish living, or Ju-
as the occasion demanded.
•
the
The Detroit Jewilih Chronicle
Invites
will tacitly be admitted by a very
the world's scene cannot endure in
disclms
ai reeponeibility for an indorsement of
deism, with insistent positiveness.
to the Jewish people, Fut
As
an
evidence
of
his
non-political
attitude
the
re-
great
host
of
people.
But
should
the
preitsed
by
the
writers.
the
heat
of the Jew's fierce wil! ■ -.
view. ex
By all means we should celebrate
institution of gift-giving on that ac-
survive—and to survive because he
cent election is in point. The executive council en-
Chanukah, you will reply, and your
count be utterly discredited?
has a peculiar right to do so—there iii
dorsed La Follette for reasons sufficient to them, but
mind will turn to a picture of bright
The giving of a gift should have
a very important implication wilt+
candle lights, of a family assembled
with the election over he refused to make any alliances
two essential qualities. One of these
those who would properly sense the
in a spirit of gayety, of gifts to wear,
is sincerity and the other is appropri-
significance of Chanukah mai. ‘i.
or to form a new party.
to eat and to gaze upon with satis-
ateness. Granting that a gift is sent
asked to consider.
faction.
Perhaps
you
will
hum,
for
Another indication of his belief in the self-suffi-
On Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Philadelphia and
as a mark of love or of good-will, we
The story of Purim is an everl•i•
better or for worse, the tune of
shall proceed to a consideration of the
ing reminder to all the world to
Byron Talmud Torah, a meeting was held by the De-
ciency of labor was his irreconcilable, immovably hos-
"Sao-ozZur Yeshuosi," or its English
quality of appropriateness. What do
whom the Bible is a universal le ri•
equivalent, the "Rock of Ages." Anti
tile position on Soviet Russia. No man has been ma-
troit district of the Zionist Organization and the
Cage—that the wish to root out the
we mean?
you will he happy in your several con-
Jew is a bootless purpose, that it is
speaker of the evening was the much bepraiseti and
ligned and badgered as he had been. Despite all the
We mean that if a gift is sent by
templations. Indeed, why shouldn't
only a bestial and execrable pin -
to
another
as
a
Chanukah
fair and glittering promises of the Soviets as to labor's
J
much revifed Maurice Samuel, author of "You Gen-
!,ou.
reduce, but one that the God of hs.
gift it should be unmistakably sent
and
privileges, Samuel Gompers saw the workers of Russia
But then I roceed to ask whether
tiles." When we had read the opinions of Samuel in
tory, of nations and of justice will
ad received as such. The printery
that is the Alpha and Omega of the
not permit. That the world knores
robbed of every vestige of freedom and deprived of
cold type we thought he was moved by a flaming ideal-
fact is not that a gift has been given
Chanukah celebration, whether such
, cm , -
or
received,
but
that
an
act
has
been
ism and was a passionate zealot whose poetic spirit
the right to organize, and he unhesitatingly and cour-
an observance of the event which the this thought and repeatedly '
to act in accordance with historical
performed by which a Jew or Jewess
festival commemorates does justice to
ageously told the whole world that the workers' para-
winged him aloft, making him forget that the solid
decisions
sufficiently
justifies
Ovine
wishes to express his or her happi-
the gripping historical facts which
the Book of Esther in the category -,f
ness on the return of the Chanukah
dise was a sham and a bitter fraud. Ile was too much
ground was the habitat of an earth-mind humanity.
needs must be recalled if the holiday
t- . .y
books
which
all
the
nations,
in
festival, marking as it does an event
of a realist schooled in the university of experience to
But when we saw him in the flesh and heard him speak
is not to assume a pagan-like winter
at least, hold as their own.
of the utmost importance in the his-
celebration,
similar
to
those
which
But
what
of
Chanukah?
rimed',
h
we concluded that he belongs in the category of the
accept promises of golden futures while the leaden
tory of the Jews and in the history
the ancient peoples of Europe resort-
chronicles the triumph of a sh r .. ill
of the world.
propagandists, notwithstanding his burning resentment
present was the lot of those who toiled.
brighten the gloomy
ed to in order to brig
id
rather than the victory iiii
e
A beautiful Chanukah gift is a gift
circumstances of snowbound village
against those who have made a Gehenna of this world
g roup of nations over another '6,, ,
This unique, elaitic and practical idealist made
which unites two persons in a spirit
life, of short days and gloomy nights,
impetuosity of the Syrian power w, ,s
for his brethren. Ile is sincere, ardent, but withal one
many unforgiving enemies and likewise made many ad-
oy
in
the
celebration
of
the
Mac-
ofji
ntih
of bitter cold and restricted move-
aroused not so much bt.couse the .I,V,
n t
r u triumph of
who does not choose with any care the arguments he
Tz rzillitIdo i,. the
miring friends. And it was his own personality that
meat.
were "different" but heron-•
the
employs and he is not averse to distorting truths and
As
far
as
Chanukah
is
concerned,
would not surrender their wan'
dominated all, inasumch as the adventitious advan -
e oppor-
enemy. A Jew, who ha s th
concept of God and the proper .,,
merry-making, the givinn of gifts, the
even disregarding whole categories of facts to suit his
runty thus
tages were not his He did not belong to any powerful
life, to the glittering idolatrie
resort to music and festive boards are
purposes. Perhaps he proceeded on his mistaken
base civilization. It was not ti. I
not vital. Appropriate enough they
t
i■e
f
c
t
'
ra.sg
wv
sensing '
as such who was the subject'' •
are.
but
they
are
quite
incidental.
assumption that the Jews are the most gullible and the
the gift offering, just because the
was
oppressor's ill-will, but the .1 i -h
The
important
thing
is
that
we
evince
gifts
for
b
h
nyintg
most impractical people in the world. However, they
p u blic
was sheer ability, strength, intelligence and singleness
I ime eirs, general is iv b iu
the
judgment with reference to ‘0 L' li o.
a consciousness of the event or
iii.
are not all gullible enough to swallow some of the most
can religious idealism and i i
of purpose that enabled him to hold his position as
events
which
the
holiday
marks,
un-
n
i
n-
r
o
order to mark an e.tent g whicehmison
action, the Jew's mode of lif.• ,i i iif
derstand its salient implications and
Jewish in spirit, obviously misses the
egregious statements made by Samuel.
head of an organization that has been torn by jurisdic-
'
thought
which
kindled
thet
correlate
the
significance
of
the
his-
significance of the whole proceeding.
After telling the audience that none of the 3,500,-
tional disputes that resembled civil war.
tonic drama with the facts and con-
passions.
The
triumph
of
the
arms
ditions
which
concern
or
should
con-
000 Jews in America understood the true inwardness
It
Maccabees was not a chance II ' . ,
Bern us in this our present day and
Duchies.
of the tragedy of European Jewry (luring the war and
was logical, necessary, foreoriii. i eil.
age. The most implacable of all Jew-
Grand Duchess Cyril, the wife
The courage of the Maccahean bands,
ish misfortunes consists of the ina-
it was only given to him by some divine dispensation
of that enterprising Grand Duke
T IIE
a courage the like of which has few
bility to see that today is but a poor
to enter into the hearts and minds of European Jewry,
who recently discovered a stray Rus-
The keepers of the Bolshevik creed, the supreme
parallels in the history of the werld,
figure
in
the
great
host
of
past
d of mira-
sian throne, has come to the United
and the genesis of which has no rivals
the assembly was then brought into the
epochs and that the days to come may
per- dictators of Russian Communism, have exposed Leon
States. New York society is all
for purity and unselfishness, sucdeed-
so completely put to naught the
even
the
miracle
of
the
land
Trotzky as one tinged with heresy. The heresy is
a-whirl and the newspapers have
L, , sw pun. '
ed because it issued from noble Intel-
peace and contentment of our imme-
found succulent grist for their grind-
formed by Moses, for Moses was only the instrument
ligence. It could not be denied a vic-
not of recent date but is traced in his labyrinthian ca-
diate lives as to render us a mean-
ing mill. Is there significance in her
tory. Failure in this case would have
of God and was consequently not responsible for the
ingless and puny generation along-
reer over a period of seven years.
coming? She says nay and, being a
been calamitous not only to the Jcw.
side
of
the
generations
that
preceded
feeding, sheltering and clothing of Israel. But with-
member
of
what
was
the
upper
group
ish people but to the truth—the small
To be a Menshevik in Russia excludes one from the
us and those that are to come. In
in the Russian nobility, her word has
out the intervention of God, the chalutzim, the pioneers
but irreducible substratum of troth –
other
words,
the
Jew's
chronic
disa-
inner council of Bolshevism with the same finality as
a certain creditability, the extent of
upon which history rests, and that
bility lies in his lack of historical per-
of a modern exodus, have built cities and roads, raised
which there is no need to discourse on
a Catholic would be excluded from the Klan. Accord-
truth is freedom.
spective, his indifference in the mat-
crops and erected schools without any previous train-
just at this moment.
The appreciation of what the Cha-
ter of establishing a rational relation-
ing to reports, Trotzky may be forced into exile as was
She must be a notable person,
nukah event implies becomes man.
ing in any of the arts or crafts, taught only by love of
ship between himself and his spiritual
a former Menshevik, Kerensky, The Bolsheviki may
Grand Duchess Cyril. She is the wife
datory on those who would experi•
ancestry.
the homeland and the wish to create. This piece of
of a man who may yet be Emperor of
not exact such a severe penalty, but he will no doubt.
ence the inner content of the eight-
Let it be understood that there is
propaganda is as far from the facts as the poles. Every
. Let success
us by all means
Russia; the tender maidens and the
day celebrationthe
remarkable relevancy between the
shorn of all power and authority.
be
of Judah
magisterial
matrons
of
New
York
are
commeniorate
responsible Zionist from Dr. Weizmann down has com-
efforts of the Syrian power to destroy
entertaining her becomingly; her
Russia is certainly a land of curious admixtures of
the Maccabee with song and psaltery,
to the roots the Jewish remnant led
mented upon the heavy burden imposed upon Palestine
views are sought on the manner in
with radiant spirit, with the exchange
by the Ilasmonean patriots and the
realism and romanticism. Seven years ago Kerensky
which American women dress. She
of gifts, In public assemblies and in
by the zealous, idealistic but untrained refugees who
present world-circling hatred directed
was deposed and ostracized because he advocated a
B
discovers a cross-word puzzle and the
small
the Jew so that he may be the
er circles of our
homes. ut
have gone to'Palestine to escape the madhouse of Eu-
pleasantness es
principal item on the social page of
foreign policy of reasonableness and friendship. Today
ysically
and, if not physically, mor- let us not, amid the
cally
physi
rope. No chalutz from Poland is allowed to go to Pal-
one of the great dailies chronicles the
ally put to naught. If that be so, which we sedulously create in the
the Bolsheviki are unanimous in their desire to attain
belay,
very vital news that she triumphs over
skilled artisan or agriculturist, for
and if only the most iridescent of name of the feast, forget that
estine unless he is a
the ends advocated by Kerensky and secretly the lead-
no less than in the days of Mattathis ,
the brain twister.
optimists can think otherwise, what
notwithstanding all poetic liberty, all men must have a
, to
and
of
his
sons,
we
are
called
op
Then think of those rude fellows,
ers favor a moderate policy of internal reconstruction
is there left for the intelligent Jew
knowledge of the arts and crafts if they are to build
dedicate our lives, our thought , and
the photographers„ who scandalized
to do but to celebrate this very sig-
and a toning of the principles of communism. The great
our
conscience
to
the
strengthd•.ing
the duchess and her ladies-in-waiting
and create. The creative impulse is strong in man,
nificant feast of Chanukah with his
sin, however, is the advocacy of such a policy by an
of the Jewish spirit in all its ,-,hres•
when, during the work of snapping
dissatisfied unless
thoughts as well as with his heart,
beautifully so, hopefully so, but it is
sions and implications. Couradi iiu ,
her august figure, they uttered such
with his active mentality as well as
individual before it is adopted and approved by the
acts in behalf of Judaism are di. . dal
it is directed and trained. In one of Samuel's dramatic,
phrases as "Look this way, lady,"
with unexacting emotions?
Central Executive Committee. Trotzky has been guilty
today as they were 2,000 year al!.
"Just lift your head a little," "Hold
poetic moments all the scientists were removed from
Under such circumstances Chanu-
We speak of courage but wt• - not
it."
When
will
American
photogra-
of this offense upon many occasions because he actually
kah will be celebrated in and for it-
this mundane sphere because they would not agree
quite understand toward will, this
phers and newspaper men learn
not
as
a
sickly
appendage
to
a
was a Menshevik before the upheaval of 1917. When
self,
courage is to be dedicated. We di
that love would give power to untrained hands to build
proper manners?
more general holiday season, in the
the turmoil had subsided and the carnage was removed
late on loyalty but we only dimly
ideology and significance of which the
and to create a world out of nothing.
comprehend the spiritual :Wu:dile ,
and the normal problems of Russian life once more
Jew can find no inspiration whatso-
Apocrypha.
Zionists no doubt accepted everything Samuel said.
story
of
Purim
is
found
in
ever.
When
the
background
upon
to
which
we should be 1481, Cent.-
became paramount it was logical that Leon Trotzky,
age, like loyalty, mut be preilic,it.il en
T01:
which the Chanukah pageant was en-
for they heard what they wanted to hear, but the Zion-
something which we cherish above
the best organizer in all Russia, with a thoroughly
the Book of Esther, one of the
acted is properly visualized, there will
ist Organization of America is anxious to increase the
everything else in life. Anil !hat
books which form the canon of the
comee forth such an understanding ob-
trained scientific mind should view these problems as
e
something we must seek out,in i .
Bible. But where do you find th
50,000 members to at least 250,000 and these new ad-
seance of the festival as to render
concrete difficulties which should be approached with
i
bring up to date and translate iii,i,
source book of the story of the ."lac-
each song sung a trumpet of instruc-
herents are not so gullible or impractical. They are
terms of present day Jewish life.
sound sense and hard understanding. During the en-
cabees and of the exploits which are
e -,
C 1 ." to the Jewish mind and every
Shall we celebrate Chanukah" 1 Y
really critical and skeptical. When they hear such
commemorated
in
the
observance
of
little
act
of
kindness
and
ceremony
a
tire period of the Bolshevik regime reports seeped
but in the right way--that is, ,de in-
the Feast of Lights—a source .book
feeder of our consciousness and a
loose and irresponsible talk as Samuel's they become
through that Trotzky was at loggerheads with the other
telligent and honorable way.
that is, of course, available in Eng-
guide to our spiritual and social ac-
even more hesitant. It is always well to remember that
Itch? We wonder how many Detroit
leaders, but thanks to the smoothing abilities of Lenin
lion as Jewish men and women in the
Jewish young men and women with a
the capacity of Palestine is limited and millions cannot
modern world—the modern but
and the great need of Trotzky's organizing ability all
ORATORY AND INFLUENCE
flare for history or literature are ac-
withal an inconsistent, back-sliding,
settle there as Samuel in his fairytale would have us
the differences were temporarily ironed out. Now Le-
quainted with the Apocrypha, that
intemperate and unreasoning world.
believe. Recently we commented upon the increase in
collection of Jewish vrri flogs which
nin is dead; Russia is slowly but surely making treaties
I have known American raid ,.
One of the strange opinions of the
not having been deemt id f sufficient
immigration to Palestine and pointed out the problems
Jewish sages tells us that with the
treat their congregations to a
and trade agreements with all the European nations
greatness or historical authenticity
advent of the Messiah and the final
of Emerson. It would bl• a sin '
involved. The Keren Ilayesod thanked us for the
• 1.-
to be included in the Bible, were
and Trotzky's sun is setting. He is due for a fall which,
assembling of the scattered threads of
ter thing if these and other .i •
for they realized that honest, sound
gathed
, r
er in a separate little volume,
the Jewish people—when the defini-
. o
however, he has expected for a long time.
rations treated their ministers t--
little in comparison with the Bible.
criticism is of more value than going off at a rhapsodic
live solution of the Jewish problem
minder of Emerson's, that "the
Those two picturesque, mysterious leaders, Lenin
How many revert to the Book of the
will have been evolved—all the Jew-
of a clergyman is two-fold --
tangent, even though the going off may be due to en-
Maccabees, in two parts, in the Apoc-
and Trotzky, are no longer the principals in the drama
ish feasts and festivals will be abol-
preaching and private influen ,
rypha in order to read the quaint but
thusiasm, youth and good intentions.
ished, all but the feast of Purim. Was
If some of the high-salaried
of Russia. Their places have been taken by men of
stirring story of the iiasmoneans and
;hi
this opinion one of those whimsies in
We certainly would not attempt to stop Samuel
I know of were judged as they
their followers? For every 100 house-
lesser imagination and ability. Trotzky maintains an
which the ancient rabbis permitted
to
be, not by their dramatic ill
from speaking, but as persons interested in the build-
holds, we venture to say, that are pre-
themselves to indulge? Was this an
unbroken silence. Ile did his work with sincerity and
powers but by the quality and
pared to endow libraries with the
le, y
ing of homes in Palestine and the saving of our co-
expression of a sort of phantasy
City of their private influtiniie.
honesty and now he will step down without recrimina-
prayer and devotional books that be-
which great men, heavy of heart and
would have to work for a lit' ,
religionists from the shambles of Europe we would
longed
to
pious
parents
and
grand-
•I xt
tion, hoping that the day of happiness and prosperity
sad of soul, looking out of dreary
stead
of
having
others
work
s
parents, there is one--is the percent-
recommend to the Zionist Organization that Samuel
ut•I ■ il•
windows upon a world of contending
they might talk. Character
for Russia will not be long delayed.
age too high?—in which a copy of the
be advised to adhere to the facts and forget for a while
rant ors, yield when they are beset
the pulpit is a greater power
Apocrypha will be found. And if it
with grave, grave doubts? Dnes not
than oratory in it. — Dr. Ale,
his poetic fancies. fairy tales and propaganda.
is found, is it read?
this opinion suggest that the Jewish
Lyons.
The anti-Catholic controversy which has arisen at
sages had visions of a world in which
men worshipped God not as Jews, not
P•trietiem.
Harvard due to the appointment of a Catholic to a Fel-
Don Francisco Rivas Puigoirvor,
as Christians, not as followers of the
DATERSON, N. J., must have out-
the oldest and one of the hest krioen
lowship is somewhat disturbing. It could be much worse
Moslem, Buddhist or Confucian faiths
lived the doubtful fame which
With the death of Samuel Gompers there passed
Jews in Mexico, died recently
1
writer.
but as children of a living God? But
if it happened at some college where the liberal tra-
the recurring strikes in its silk mills
co City. Ile was famous as a
from the American scene one of the most colorful per-
why did they pick out Purim for an
used to win for it. It needed fresh
teacher, scholar and soldier. H. was
dition was not so thoroughly implanted. Harvard is
'sew
everlasting
survival
to
the
exclusion
sonalities of the last half century. A cigar maker by
inspiration for significant doings and
born in Campecho, educated in
Unitarian and has prided itself upon its catholicity in
of all the major and minor holidays
York, and the teacher of praetidally
really got it. Through the medium
trade, with but slight formal education, he became one
in
the
Jewish
calendar?
Why
was
matters of religion, race and nationality. When the
all the well-known writers and ttates.
of the Women's Independent Repub-
Purim rather than Chanukah so posi-
of the giant figures of his age chiefly because of an
lican League the city descried a
men of Mexico today.
anti-Semitic controversy was precipitated recently. the
tively honored? Indeed, why was the
method of stimulating "absolute pat-
indomitable spirit, an unswerving devotion to a cause
sane and reasonable attitude of the overseers proved
riotism" among men which is singu-
in which he believed profoundly and religiously and
conclusively that this ancient tradition of freedom was
really insistent. They—the women of
an ability to separate realities from fiction and romance.
the league—resolved to keep their
still much alive at Harvard. Our friends of the Catho-
bright, patriotic eyes open at mili-
When in 1381 Samuel Gompers organized the
lic faith need have no fears. for Harvard still holds firm
tary parades. In every case where a
American Federation of Labor in the face of the then
man fails to properly salute the col-
to the best in American life.
ors, these women will knock his hat
powerful Knights of Labor, he was considered rather
from his head.
absurd and fanatical, not to mention impractical. But
Light coming from the vault of distant years,
What a novel, original and withal
Stanley Bero, for many years a relief worker, recom-
Samuel Gompers knew and understood the American
Light sinking in the dark of unknown days,
effective thought! It is really to be
mends Mexico as a place of refuge for many of the
regretted that such a method had not
worker and the spirit of America better than did the
Light of the famished flame that gave ye seers
been discovered before. Say what
stranded Jews of Cuba and Europe. If the Jews pro-
And roused the golden-tongued to bolden lays;
leaders of the Knights of Labor. lie builded his or-
you will, the woman voter really has
ceed as immigrants and are gradually settled in the
ganization upon the theory of craft division, contrary
Light of our ancestors who hoped and died,
justified the enactment of the
cities and on the farms we give it our unqualified ap-
eighteenth amendment to the Consti-
to the mass organization of the Knights of Labor. The
Light of the living who would hope to live.
tution of the United States.
proval, but if it is to be a mass migration to establish

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Zionism and Propaganda.

Trotzky a Menshevik.

Samuel Gompers.

The Chanukah Light

soundness of his position has been proven by the con-
tinued growth and existence of the American Federa-
tion and the disappearance of the Knights of Labor.
His organization, based upon the theory of a "fair day's
work for a fair day's pay," freed from all political en-
tanglements, has given to the American worker shorter
hours, better pay, a larger share of leisure and more
comfort than any other laior organization in America.
Samuel Gompers was anathema to the extremists
of big business and communists, for to the business
group he was a constant disturber who refused to per-
m
industry, while to the co-
mit autocratic control of
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munists he was despicable because he always menacet

farm colonies we object as strenuously as before. when
the offer of President Galles was discussed.

Without intending any animadversions we cannot
refrain from criticising Samuel Untermyer's prophecy
that Palestine may eventually be the home of millions
of Jews. The present Palestine has not the area, re-
such a number and
sources or potentialities to absorb
Mr. Untermyer, who would hardly be classed as a Zion-
ist romancer, should really know this. Perhaps it was

only a campaign gesture.

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ILE Catholic primate of Gran.
Hungary, recently celebrated his
thousandth mass. Representatives of
Jewish communities attended the
event and the rabbis congratulated
the archbishop. According to the re-
port, when the chief rabbi raised his
hands to bless the primate and uttered
a benediction in Hebrew the arch-
bishop and the clergy bowed their
heads. Following this the primate
preached a sermon in which he de-
clared that all men are brothers.

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Shine forth a mighty flame with mighty pride.
Shine forth a conquering flame and to us give
The passions that did sway Mattathias' sons.
The ardor that defied the craven horde,
The valor that bore up the saintly ones
Who slew the godless with unwilling sword.
Light of the slender flame and wan and white
Bestow a lustre that is more than light.

ABRAHAM CAPLAN

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